Hamas mourns Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil, says his assassination affirms unity of destiny

GAZA  (Palestine Foundation Information Center)  Hamas mourned in a press statement on Saturday the Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil, and the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, who were killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburb of Beirut.

“The martyrdom of the great leader Hajj Ibrahim Aqil, along the road to Jerusalem, and in the heroic support battle that the Islamic Resistance is waging in Lebanon in support of our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip alongside our brothers in the axis of resistance, confirms once again the unity of destiny and path,” it added.

Hamas expressed its sincere condolences to Hezbollah and the Lebanese people “for the martyrdom of the great leader Ibrahim Aqil, who ascended to heaven with a group of martyred leaders, in a cowardly assassination carried out by the Israeli occupation army.”

It appreciated the “great sacrifices” made by the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, and their insistence on continuing their support and backing to the Palestinian people who are being subjected to a brutal war of genocide “at the hands of the criminal neo-Nazi Zionists.”

The confrontations between Israeli army and Hezbollah have escalated since the assassination of the party’s military commander Fouad Shukr.

For its part, the Lebanese Hezbollah mourned on Saturday the military commander Ahmed Wahbi and 13 fighters who were martyred in the Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in which the military commander Ibrahim Aqil was assassinated.

Hezbollah officially confirmed and mourned late Friday the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil. It explained that leader Ahmed Wahbi assumed responsibility for leading the Radwan Force, noting that Wahbi played a fundamental role in the party.

Aqil is the second assassinated senior official in Hezbollah after Fouad Shukr since Hezbollah has opened a front to support the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7.

A Lebanese security source told Aljazeera that the Israeli strike on the southern suburb of Beirut targeted a meeting of more than 20 people of the leadership committee of the Radwan Force in Hezbollah.

The source added that Israeli warplanes fired at least four missiles that destroyed the building, penetrated its parking lot, and reached the meeting place on the second underground floor.